1 Jun 2000
William F. Tate recently was awarded the Early Career Contribution Award at the American Educational Research Association's Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Early Career Contribution Award is given for a significant contribution to minority-related issues by a scholar or a significant contribution to educational research and development by a minority scholar within the first decade of his/her career following receipt of a doctoral degree.
Tate, currently on leave from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is Scholar in Residence for the Dallas Independent School District and Co-Principal Investigator of the Urban Systemic Program (USP). Funded by the National Science Foundation, the USP aims to improve mathematics and science teaching and learning in the Dallas Independent School District. Under his guidance, the school district is embarking on an ambitions plan to improve mathematics and science proficiencies of all students. Dr. Tate, a former mathematics teacher and administrator with DISD, is charged with the professional development of teachers and administrators in mathematics and science and leads district efforts to partner with business to produce scientifically literate students.
Tate is the co-author of an elementary mathematics textbook series. He has published numerous scholarly journal articles and book chapters on mathematics education and urban school reform. In 1998, he received an outstanding research award from the American Educational Research Association and is currently an editor of AERA's American Educational Research Journal.
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